Great article. Thanks for bringing this to the foreground.

If I may, I would like to add that this is a similar experience for many immigrant children. I was lucky enough that my parents are relatively well-off and know English, but my partner has from a very early age taken care of her parents’ paperwork: taxes, car insurance, etc. Even travel planning. Her responsibility to take care of her older generation(s) extends well into adulthood. I have the freedom to ponder say, going on a working holiday for a year or two, while she is much more restricted in her mobility because she has to stay close to her parents to help them. We’re both second-generation, Chinese-Canadians with parents from the “old country,” but she has far more adulting experience than me.